It is well-renowned as the loneliest position in football. Heck, Adam Sandler even wrote a comedy song dubbed “The Lonesome Kicker.”

It is also, the most unnecessary position in the game as well.

Ever since I began watching football with my father around the age of five or so, I have developed an opposition to kickers.

Let me say first that yes, I understand it is an extreme talent and I respect those steel-legged fellows who can boot a football 50-plus yards.

I just don’t want them deciding games.

An amendment that should be made to the NFL game especially, is that kickers should only be used on kickoffs and in punt situations.

No field goals and no extra points.

You can’t convey to me that it would not be more entertaining to see the offense and defense line up to go for two-point conversions after each score than boot an least 95 percent success rate kick through the uprights.

You know, let the guys who actually have dirt and sweat on their jerseys fight for points.

This has never bothered me more than in watching Sunday night’s Denver Broncos versus New England Patriots game.

It was a classic – until the end.

Peyton Manning jumped out to a lead and Tom Brady came back to retake said lead.

Manning came back again to tie the game at 31-all.

In overtime, both defenses stood strong until a muffed punt by Denver gave New England the ball deep inside Bronco territory.

So, did Brady come up clutch and fire a game-winning touchdown pass? No.

Did running back Stevan Ridley and his grass-stained, sweaty jersey plunge into the end zone for a game-winning score? Wrong again.

Instead, little Stephen Gostkowski trotted out to the field in his jersey that Mr. Clean would have been proud of and booted in a game-winning chip-shot field goal.

It’s old. We’ve seen it. Yes, kudos to Gostkowski because there is a huge pressure element for kickers and not just anyone can do it.

I don’t want to completely eradicate kickers from the game – I would still want to keep kickoffs after every touchdown and still keep the option to punt the ball away.

No matter the down-and-distance, teams would have the choice to go for it or punt. There would be no option to kick a field goal.

What’s more exciting? Fourth-and-3 from the Denver 30-yard line with Brady under center and the game on the line or fourth-and-3 at the 30 with Gostkowski lining up a kick?

Another pigskin atrocity that we all had to witness as sports fans this past weekend was a tie between Green Bay and Minnesota.

A tie?

The only ties that there should be in life are in foot races (because it is physically possible for one human being to be equally as fast as the other) or a beauty contest between Charlize Theron and Jennifer Aniston. Nobody loses there.

But a football game? Please.

The NFL needs to adopt college football’s overtime rules, however, starting each possession at the 50-yard line instead of the 25.

Ties are for juveniles whose fragile self-esteems we don’t want to fracture.

I want to reiterate that this column is not conjured to belittle or disrespect the kicker.

It is simply a notion that as great as football is, it could still be so much better.